Details of the book

As well as the Journal itself, the new edition (550 pages in all) contains:

• 40 maps, showing Dowsing's activities and progress
• 130 photographs and illustrations, many of things he damaged
• notes on every one of the 250 churches Dowsing visited, and the Cambridge college chapels, describing what can be seen today
• more than sixty sets of churchwardens' accounts, allowing us to track Dowsing and co-workers across seven counties in East Anglia
• much new material on Suffolk, showing how Dowsing's colleagues were working over most of the county
• considerable new work describing the appearance of the Cambridge college chapels in the late 1630s after their Laudian re-ordering, based on unpublished manuscript material and college accounts;  
• a chapter on Dowsing the man and his times, including an analysis of his library and the marginal comments he wrote in his book
• a careful review of the theory that Dowsing visited north Cambridgeshire, but that those pages of the Journal are missing
• a chapter on iconoclasm in Norfolk, identifying the man who dealt with churches to the south of the county, and dealing in detail with Norwich and less fully with other towns
• a chapter on other neighbouring counties, demonstrating that church interiors were being destroyed under Parliamentary auspices all over East Anglia
• a chapter which discusses what physical evidence in a church safely demonstrates Civil War iconoclasm
•  in all, nine explanatory chapters, and numerous appendices
•  a long-lost portrait, thought to be Dowsing
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